The Rights of Upright Lyrics

Under your footprint a world being trampled
Over your head, coexistence and change
Outside your grasp, the truth of your condition
Does anything it matter if all is your birthright?

Take all you want and
Destroy what gets in your way
Be it conscious or earthen
Spare only what stands on two legs

Outcast by your mass, a world slowly smothered
Over your head you think saviors await
Outside your grasp all concepts of renewal
Step over it all, all you've claimed your birthright

Disgusting, the amount of disregard
For all things, not us, justifications for
Exploitation of environs
Atmosphere, ocean, Earth, and the ones on all fours

Unleash the hordes, no one can stop you now
Walking in stride, we topple all
Feel no remorse, born man the chosen ones
These are your rights, the rights of upright

But standing so tall
Only makes it easier for us to look down
Only makes harder to hear the plead
Sounds of a planet crushing under two feet

Took all you wanted
Destroyed what gets in your way
Now live alone in the barren
Sympathy died on two legs

Eclipsed in your shadow lay the scarred remains of a dead world
Over your head, dead space holds no escape
Too far from your grasp are all second chances
The fault is your own, and death is your birthright

What is right? Defend our wrongs with these rights been granted to us alone
The rights of upright
For those who do what they will conscious of consequences
I’ve stood upright, forever weighted downward by the shame of my kind
No longer upright, identify with the dying masses, not the chain wielding masters